Love: A Definition

LindsayAnderson
Oct 20, 2021
2 min read

Updated: Oct 21, 2021

The word love has more than one definition. It is different for everyone. It is understood at different levels. Love can be the way one feels about another, or the look in someone's eyes when they express how much they care. For me, it is not the desire to receive, but the desire to give. To give your heart to someone else, to give them peace, encouragement, healing, joy, and warmth. Love is the ability to be selfless. I know what you may be thinking, "she is only 18 how does she know what love is." Well let me answer that for you. My family. I got to grow up watching my parents, aunts and uncles, and grand-parents all love each other so beautifully. I watched them encourage each other, give things up, provide, and care for one another. And yes, I am still young and have a lot to learn, but hear me out!

I am in a very happy relationship right now. I never planned on falling in love, and to be honest, I wasn't even looking for anything at all. Then one day I caught myself smiling at the sound of his name. I kept trying to deny it, but love hit me like a truck going 200km/h. But how glad I am that it did. And yes, what drew me to his love was the things he said and did for me. But, what hooked me, was being able to express my love, admiration, and heart to someone else. Someone so deserving of kindness. When loving someone, sure it has to go both ways, and yeah it can make your smile so big and the butterflies in your stomach flutter immensely. Yet to truly understand what that means, you have to be willing to do the same thing. To encourage, to make them smile, to be their shoulder to lean on. And when you do finally understand what loving someone means, you would give up anything for them.

In saying this, I don't mean that things won't be hard in your relationships. Because let's be real, all relationships come with a few problems. But it is better for the both of you to agree on how you want to love one another. And the word love has many different meanings to many different people, and I just wanted to share how I see love and what it means to me. You can form whatever kind of vision for love you wish to see. But remember that it is you and your partner against the problems you face. Because love is teamwork, it is a decision to share your life with another person and them to share theirs with you. If you love them as much as you think you do, and understand what that love means, then giving up your ego for them, for your relationship. It's a piece of cake.